Ethics in the digital workplace
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
Astra Zeneca, the multi-national group that manufactures pharmaceuticals, has announced that 1300 jobs are to be lost at its site in Södertälje. The firm attributes the job reductions to slow growth within the pharmaceutical sector. It is expected that the job losses will be implemented by 2010.
Eurofound (2007), Astra Zeneca, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 66054, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66054.